Hey ros-users, Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's ROS Live meeting on Robot Description Formats. You can listen to the audio and see notes here: http://metrorobots.com/roscast/episode_01.html It has also been released as a podcast for those of you who are so inclined. To continue the discussion about the future of Robot Description Formats, OSRF has set up a Discourse page. http://discourse.ros.org/c/robot-description-formats You can vote on topics for the next meeting on this page: https://github.com/DLu/ros_live/wiki/Topics Keep hackin, David Lu!! ROS Community Promoter Person (ROSCPP) BossaNova.com / MetroRobots.com On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:38 AM, David Lu!! wrote: > ROS Users of the World, > > The time and topic for the February ROS Live meetup are set. The > meeting will be Thursday February 25th, 2016 at 2pm EST [1] and will > be about Robot Description Formats. > > Thank you everyone for voting. Future meetings will likely focus on > other highly ranked topics. > > Further details about how to participate will be released next week. > In the meantime, you can help shape the conversation by visiting the > Github page[2] and adding topics you'd like to hear discussed, gripes > you have about URDF or other things to spur the conversation. > > David Lu!! > ROS Community Promoter Person (ROSCPP) > BossaNova.com / MetroRobots.com > > P.S. As it turns out, trying to schedule this meeting was a massively > over-constrained problem. There were no perfect solutions, and most > options were unavailable for about half the respondents. > P.P.S. Due to possible limitations in the number of live participants > on the call, please let me know if there are special circumstances for > you being on the live call. As mentioned earlier, there will be a way > to contribute questions if you're watching the live stream. > > [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ROS+Live+February&iso=20160225T14&p1=418&ah=1 > [2] https://github.com/DLu/ros_live/wiki/Robot-Description-Formats > [3] http://tinyurl.com/roslivefebruary > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 7:08 PM, David Lu!! wrote: >> Greetings ROS Users, >> >> At the encouragement of OSRF, I'm organizing the second ROS Live >> Community video call. The first was held last summer [1] to discuss >> build systems. Now, in an effort to foster more community, we're >> having another, and with any luck, they'll happen more frequently. >> >> First thing first, we need a topic. I've set up a wiki page [2] to >> track different suggestions. Please add suggestions and edit the vote >> totals as you see fit (one vote per person per topic, please) >> >> Second, we will need to find a time to meet. Please fill out the >> WhenIsGood page [3] if you are interested in attending. OSRF will host >> a Google Hangout for a limited number of people. It will also be >> available non-interactively by streaming through YouTube, and there >> will be an unnamed feedback mechanism for watchers to ask moderated >> questions of the participants. >> >> Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you all. >> David Lu!! >> ROS Community Promoter Person (ROSCPP) >> BossaNova.com / MetroRobots.com >> >> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYF4pW02p4&t=6m14s >> [2] https://github.com/DLu/ros_live/wiki/Topics >> [3] http://whenisgood.net/roslive >> [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVLA8fvBczg _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users